Last Thursday I took the day off work to go out to the Henry Moore Foundation in rural
Hertfordshire with relatives who were over from Canada. It’s worth a visit even if,
like me, you think art might not be your thing – because the sculptures that
are on display in the grounds of the farmhouse where the Moores moved to during the war are truly
breathtaking.
Naturally, I took my binoculars to see what I could see.
There were Robins in the hedgerows, a fleetingly-glimpsed House Sparrow, and
plenty of Rooks in the field with the sheep. There’s a bird table in the garden
by the visitors’ centre where I saw a pair of Great Tits.
Sighting of the day, though, was a Treecreeper
making its way up a tree next to one of the barns that Moore converted into a studio. I’m not sure
when I last saw one of those – I’ve checked my notes and I am pretty sure they’ve
eluded me in Coldfall Wood. Now that was worth taking the binoculars for.
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